NOTE

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the Committee [2nd May], as follows:

Clauses 1 to 8, new Clauses relating to Part I, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 9 to 22, Schedule 1, Clauses 23 to 38, Schedule 2, Clauses 39 to 44, new Clauses relating to Part II, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 88 to 90, Clauses 45 to 52, Clause 75, Clause 53, Schedule 3, Clauses 54 to 74, Clauses 76 and 77, new Clauses relating to Part III, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 84 and 85, Clauses 78 to 83, new Clauses relating to Part IV, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 86 and 87, Clauses 91 to 94, Schedules 4 and 5, Clauses 95 and 96, remaining new Clauses, remaining new Schedules.

Clause 17, page 11, line 27, leave out from 'authority' to end of line 29 and insert 'established to discharge functions in respect of part of the area of the authority and in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied

(a) the area of that part does not exceed two-fifths of the total area of the authority,

(b) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed two-fifths of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated, and

(c) the members of the committee or sub-committee who are members of the authority have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which fall wholly or partly within that part,'.

Clause 20, page 13, leave out lines 13 and 14 and insert 'arrangements for the overview and scrutiny of the executive (such arrangements referred to in this Part as overview and scrutiny arrangements)'.

'(f) to require that the implementation of any such decision as is referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection is deferred until a decision has been made whether or not to exercise the power conferred by subsection(3).'.

'( ) Unless the matter is certified by the authority's monitoring officer to be urgent, no decision by an executive, a member of an executive or a committee of an executive, under its executive arrangements, shall be implemented within less than five working days after the decision is published.'.

Clause 20, page 13, line 40, leave out 'may not discharge any' and insert 'may by resolution of the authority discharge'.

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Clause 20, page 13, line 41, at end insert

'(4A) If or to the extent that a local authority's function of conducting best value reviews under section 5 of the Local Government Act 1999 is not the responsibility of an executive of the authority, the authority may arrange for their overview and scrutiny committee (or any of their overview and scrutiny committees) to conduct such a review.'.